International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Decides to authorize the Committee to meet for an additional week per session, as a temporary measure, with effect from August 2009, until 2011; also decides to assess the situation regarding the meeting time of the Committee at its 65th session on the basis of an evaluation made by the Office of the High Commissioner, taking into account a more comprehensive approach to the backlog of human rights treaty bodies and the increasing number of reports of States parties to the human rights conventions; strongly urges States parties to the Convention to accelerate their domestic ratification procedures with regard to the amendment to the Convention concerning the financing of the Committee and to notify the Secretary-General expeditiously in writing of their agreement to the amendment, as decided upon at the Fourteenth Meeting of States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on 15 Jan. 1992; decides to consider, at its 65th session, under the item entitled "Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance", the reports of the Committee on its 74th and 75th and its 76th and 77th sessions, the report of the Secretary-General on the financial situation of the Committee and the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention.

Adopted without vote, 74th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 63rd sess., Suppl. no. 49.